The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
The Digital Walters is a branch of The Walters Art Museum Manuscripts Department.
Originating in Ghent or Bruges, Flanders, in the early sixteenth century, this Dominican Book of Hours focuses on the Passion of Christ and the Corpus Christi. This book masquerades as a purely authentic medieval manuscript, when in fact it is a modern and medieval hybrid. The majority of the manuscript was made ca. 1500, but it had remained unfinished. Its nineteenth-century owner, John Boykett Jarman, commissioned English illustrator William Caleb Wing to "finish" the manuscript ca. 1850. Known for his manuscript illumination skills, Wing recreated imagery typical of a fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Flemish Book of Hours. Henry Walters was aware that the manuscript was partially painted in the nineteenth century when he purchased it, as the manuscript is noted as a "forgery" in the James C. Anderson inventory, December 7th, 1913. Whether pages and images are original or nineteenth century has been indicated both within the individual text parts as well as within the image cataloging.
Nineteenth-century imitation of Gothic script
artist: W.C Wing
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Bucca, Lauren
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 808, cat. no. 319.
Backhouse, Janet. A Victorian Connoisseur and His Manuscripts: The Tale of Mr. Jarman and Mr. Wing. British Museum Quarterly 32, nos. 3-4 (1968): 76-92.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly of the Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; 720.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; p. 629, cat. no. App. I.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Bruges or Ghent, Flanders
Ca. 1500 CE; illuminations late 19th-century
book
Non-original Binding
Nineteenth-century purple velvet binding by Léon Gruel (his bookplate number 1397); nineteenth-century metal clasp with allegorical figures
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in the early sixteenth century in Bruges or Ghent, Flanders
John Boykett Jarman commissioned W.C Wing to add illuminations, London, ca. 1850
Jarman sold manuscript at Sotheby's auction on June 13-14, 1864, lot 93
Léon Gruel, Paris, before 1913; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate with inscription "1397"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1913
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Bruges or Ghent, Flanders
Ca. 1500 CE; illuminations late 19th-century
book
The primary language in this manuscript is Latin.
Made in the early sixteenth century in Bruges or Ghent, Flanders
John Boykett Jarman commissioned W.C Wing to add illuminations, London, ca. 1850
Jarman sold manuscript at Sotheby's auction on June 13-14, 1864, lot 93
Léon Gruel, Paris, before 1913; Gruel and Engelmann bookplate with inscription "1397"
Henry Walters, Baltimore, purchased from Gruel in 1913
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters' bequest
Originating in Ghent or Bruges, Flanders, in the early sixteenth century, this Dominican Book of Hours focuses on the Passion of Christ and the Corpus Christi. This book masquerades as a purely authentic medieval manuscript, when in fact it is a modern and medieval hybrid. The majority of the manuscript was made ca. 1500, but it had remained unfinished. Its nineteenth-century owner, John Boykett Jarman, commissioned English illustrator William Caleb Wing to "finish" the manuscript ca. 1850. Known for his manuscript illumination skills, Wing recreated imagery typical of a fifteenth- to sixteenth-century Flemish Book of Hours. Henry Walters was aware that the manuscript was partially painted in the nineteenth century when he purchased it, as the manuscript is noted as a "forgery" in the James C. Anderson inventory, December 7th, 1913. Whether pages and images are original or nineteenth century has been indicated both within the individual text parts as well as within the image cataloging.
Nineteenth-century imitation of Gothic script
artist: W.C Wing
Principal cataloger: Randall, Lilian M.C.
Cataloger: Bucca, Lauren
Cataloger: Herbold, Rebekah
Editor: Herbert, Lynley
Copy editor: Dibble, Charles
Contributor: Bucca, Lauren
Contributor: Emery, Doug
Contributor: Noel, William
Contributor: Schuele, Allyson
Contributor: Tabritha, Ariel
Contributor: Toth, Michael B.
Contributor: Wiegand, Kimber
Conservator: Owen, Linda
Conservator: Quandt, Abigail
De Ricci, Seymour, and W. J. Wilson. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. New York: H. W. Wilson Company, 1935; p. 808, cat. no. 319.
Backhouse, Janet. A Victorian Connoisseur and His Manuscripts: The Tale of Mr. Jarman and Mr. Wing. British Museum Quarterly 32, nos. 3-4 (1968): 76-92.
Bowles, Edmund A. "A Checklist of Musical Instruments in Fifteenth Century Illuminated Manuscripts at the Walters Art Gallery." Quarterly of the Music Library Association 32 (1976): 719-726; 720.
Randall, Lilian M. C. Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery. Vol. 3, Belgium, 1250-1530. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with the Walters Art Gallery, 1997; p. 629, cat. no. App. I.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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